Unfortunately, many people who created the film "Operational Alias" are no longer alive. At the age of 57 years (in 2005), the director Igor Talpa, specializing in good-quality criminal dramas and action films, left our world.
He began with a good four-part action-packed mini-series Tango Over the Abyss, continued by Sarmatom, The Return of the Titanic. But in 2003, the director shot "Operational Alias" - a series about a man who has lost his memory, but has not lost anything human. This very protagonist - the provincial resident Sergey Lapin - was played by Alexander Dedyushko, who had never faked a real man in a rather battered image. Our audience’s loss is all the more painful: Alexander died as a result of a car accident in the Vladimir Region, it was four years after the premiere of the picture “Operational nickname” on blue screens. He was only 45. How many spectators he could still conquer with his truly masculine charm!
Another bourne?
The series’s intrigue is that an ordinary person (perhaps only slightly “shifted”, not without reason in the “psychiatric hospital” once lay) turns out to be a special agent. Of course, this turn of events is not new, it is worth recalling only the ubiquitous Bourne, who has long identified himself.
Amnesia - this technique is popular and offers great opportunities for further developments. But nevertheless, despite the apparent platitude, what is happening on the screen (and the end of the "dashing" nineties, a difficult time is shown) attracts and forces to watch "Operational alias" one series after another. Lapin receives an offer to work in a bank. The memory is gradually returning to our agent. He finds himself between two fires: on the one hand, FSB officers, on the other, criminal types who also do not let Sergei out of sight. The plot is gaining momentum, but everything is just beginning ...
Recognized movie masters
Of course, the central character attracts maximum attention, which is quite logical. But the environment of Lapin was chosen very strong. The roles played by recognized masters of domestic cinema art - Vladimir Konkin, Lev Durov,
Lev Prygunov, may not be included in the annals of history, but they are also masters in order to embody the images with maximum return.
The charisma of the most intelligent Aristarch Livanov and Vladimir Verzhbitsky helped them this time. Vladimir Episkoposyan is good in the role of a “mafia element”, as if a fish in water feels itself in the shoes of all kinds of reptiles and scum. Igor Volkov in the image of the FSB lieutenant colonel also left a good impression.
What attracts the viewer the “Operational alias” most of all? Of course, the spy component. Thanks to the co-author of the script - the famous detective author Daniil Koretsky - you don’t have to get bored especially. The very essence of what we call male friendship is perfectly shown. It turns out to exist. "Operational Alias" is a series that tells about it too. The plus of the tape is its short duration, so the viewer simply does not have time to get tired of the heroes.